The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell to a near 49-year low last week, pointing to sustained labour market strength, which should continue to underpin economic growth.

And a new Trump administration tariff on $200 billion in Chinese imports - along with China's retaliation against U.S. imports - took effect last month, hitting many consumer goods. Most U.S. businesses will try to absorb the higher costs themselves, at least for now, and avoid any layoffs.

Still, should the tariffs remain fully in effect a year from now, roughly 300,000 jobs could be lost by then, according to Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.

The unemployment rate for those with a high school degree and no college attendance hit 3.7 per cent, the lowest since April 2001. Analysts noted that this is the lowest unemployment rate since 1969.

If the rate keeps dropping, it will heighten two concerns: Has the economy soaked up almost all the people who want or are able to work?

This could ease concerns about the economy overheating and keep the Federal Reserve on a path of gradual interest rate increases.

Here's why: The government counts people as unemployed only if they're actively looking for a job.

Numerous dislocated people will probably return to work. Service providers increased payrolls by 75 000 workers, the lowest in a year, as retail also showed a 20 000 decline. And the rising presence of prime-age people in the job market has been offset by the steady retirements of older members of the vast baby boom generation.

Construction companies hired 23,000 more workers last month after increasing payrolls by 26,000 jobs in August.

The number of part-time workers who would have preferred to have full-time jobs rose by 263,000 to 4.6 million.

With September's increase below the 0.5 percent gain notched during the same period last year, that would lower the annual increase in wages to 2.8 percent from 2.9 percent in August, which was the biggest rise in more than nine years. An Institute for Supply Management survey published this week showed robust employment gains in the services sector in September.

This week, Amazon announced that it will raise the minimum wage for all USA workers to $15 per hour, starting in November. Weather-related absences and curtailments also took a toll on the tally of aggregate hours worked.

A better measure of paychecks is average weekly earnings, Boockvar argues, which are up 3.4% from a year ago.

One of the main factors in the dip in the vacancies was likely to be Hurricane Florence, which struck North and SC at the beginning of September, closing thousands of businesses.

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DBS economist Radhika Rao also predicted a rate hike. "We rule out a hike of 50 basis points, as it may spook the market". The policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) remained unchanged at 6.5 per cent.

The newly leaked renders also show the OnePlus 6T with Type-C port at the bottom of the phone placed between two speaker grills. The company has posted the first live image of the OnePlus 6T with OnePlus 6 on its social media channels .

The audience laughed as the president said: "Thirty-six years ago this happened: I had one beer!" I don't remember. Asked whether the President's attack would sway her vote, she answered: "I am taking everything into account".

In 2010, Stevens retired from the bench after serving for 35 years - one of the longest tenured justices in history. Ford testified that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a party in 1982 when both were high school students.

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The Nokia 7 .1 will be available from JB Hi-Fi (including SIM-only plans) and Harvey Norman from October 17 with an RRP of $499. Although HMD claims that the viewing experience with the Nokia 7 .1 will be a good one but we are yet to fully test it.

Depending on the game, players can engage in online competitive or co-op multiplayer, or take turns controlling the action. Individual memberships are available for $3.99 for one month, $7.99 for three months or $19.99 for 12 months.

Of course, you're cutting off all communication for your phone so you won't get any calls or other messages. Therefore, if you have a smartphone capable of receiving WEA alerts, your phone will receive the alert.

He said the investigation was thorough, and for the witnesses interviewed "it's a cross between an endoscopy and a colonoscopy". For his part, Kavanaugh testified he was "100 percent certain" none of the alleged incidents of sexual misconduct occurred.

A separate post on the Google Developers Blog noted the changes that the Google Assistant update brings for developers. Meanwhile, developers and brands now have tools that let them make full use of the phone's display.

Yet, Spurs had chances and took two of them, and they showed real desire to try and drag themselves back into the game. Mauricio Pochettino's side have lost both of their group matches after a 2-1 defeat at Inter Milan in their opener.

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